BREGANZE DOC is a town in Vicenza (VI) province in the Veneto in north-east Italy. The region owes its recent renown to Fausto Maculan (see link below) whose adoption of international varieties in the 1980s put the region on the map. However, Walter Speller (2015, p107-8) argues that as demand is waning for such wines, and despite Breganze producing ‘wines of real interest from Bordeaux varieties’, the region is ‘increasingly in need of redefining itself in a more Italian, indigenous context.’

TERROIR | ‘Although some of the vineyards are in the foothills of the alps to the north of the city of Vicenza, a large percentage of them are in the gravel soils of the plain,’ says Daniel Thomases.